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box. Anna sang with the box, choosing to 
accompany thus only the most sentimental 
ditties, else those which were fullest of 
slang. She also danced a few of the fancy 
steps — Joe-Billy laughing at her and 
Wyeth frowning and flushing. The Train- 
ors, twins, plain and pleasant, tried to look 
shocked, but succeeded only in being 
puzzled. Therefore Nancy shut ofif the 
music, made the young fellows fetch in 
scalybarks, black walnuts, chestnuts and 
sweet cider — and after all had eaten and 
drunk their fill, sent everybody to bed. 
It was long before she slept, yet she 
woke with the gray light that struggled 
through the snow clouds and the snow. It 
still fell fast, but the wind had died, so 
only the early drifts mounded the lawn. 
One was just beyond the bird-tree — now 
a tall white tent, a haven for so many 
small hungry flying things. Nancy hud¬ 
dled on a wrapper, stuck her feet in list 
slippers and stole down the corridor, to 
the end window that gave a wide view. 
All she could see were lawn trees, with 
clouds seeming to lie upon them — under¬ 
neath all was snow, snow, snow. A touch 
made her start and turn — Mary was be¬ 
side her, her eyes dark, her mouth tense. 
“Let's go make the egg nogg — then wake 
up the rest,” she said. “We have to do 
something. The snow has come — now we 
have only to wish and wait for Jack.” 
“You have waited?” Nancy asked 
hardly above breath. Mary nodded, her 
eyes very bright. “Seventeen years,” she 
said softly: “But — they were not so long, 
so hard as — this seventeen hours at the 
last.” 
The end? Suit yourself. Jack came 
safe — I think he married Mary before the 
orchids faded. All I know is Mr. and Mrs. 
John Masters sailed a little while back for 
a honeymoon year abroad. 
A Good Word for the Crow 
T HE case of the crow, condemned a 
decade or more ago as a destructive 
bird in agricultural fields, has been re¬ 
opened by the Department of Agriculture 
and a more favorable verdict reached. 
The investigation made by experts of the 
Biological Survey of the Department 
shows the crow to be of great value to 
farmers. 
After a careful study of the habits and 
the examination of a large number of 
stomachs, the Department experts have 
reached the conclusion that the crow con¬ 
sumes enough grasshoppers, cut worms, 
white grubs and other injurious insects to 
make him highly valuable to farmers. 
There is, however, one bad habit which 
the crow has, and that is the destruction of 
young birds and bird eggs, but this trait is 
outweighed by the good the bird is doing 
for the farmer in the destruction of worms 
and insects. 
The one danger from the crow, accord¬ 
ing to Department experts, lies in large 
numbers. The number should be kept 
down so that its normal food is sufficient. 
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